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    Is my unorthodox "mounting" job safe?

    After finding out that I could add a Serial ATA hard drive to a PC that already had two IDE drives, I ordered (from Newegg) a new Samsung Serial ATA drive even though I didn't have any 3.25" bays in my case that weren't already being used. I figured I would use a bracket or something to mount...
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    my pc already has two IDE hard drives. can I add a Serial ATA drive?

    I have tried searching these forums and using Google, but I couldn't find any information on whether you can take a computer whose motherboard has connectors for both IDE and Serial ATA (as mine does) and hook up IDE drives and Serial ATA drives at the same time. The reason I want to do this...
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    why 1280 x 1024 and not 1280 x 960?

    My question is, why do a lot of games, and a lot of hardware reviews, use 1280 by 1024 as one of the resolution choices? All of the other common resolutions have a 4 to 3 ratio, but 1280x1024 is 5 to 4. Doesn't everything look all scrunched if you play the game on that setting? Sometimes...
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    XP's services.exe won't stop writing to the disk

    The Summary pretty much says it all. I'm running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (not 2) and when I pressed CTRL-ALT-DELETE and got the Task Manager to display I/O Writes (as suggested by another thread in this forum), the only service that continued to write to the disk after startup completed...
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    My video card survived- or did it?

    (FYI to moderator: I already posted this in technical support, but since I'm not getting a reply and this is a video card issue, I thought I'd try posting it here with a more interesting title) On the way back to college, I had a pretty gruesome car accident. I was belted in and so was unhurt...
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    DVI to VGA adapter not working; is it the video card?

    On the way back to college, I had a pretty gruesome car accident. I was belted in and so was unhurt expect for my arm getting cut by glass when I was crawling out of what used to be my car. Unfortunately, my desktop PC was also in the car, and some if its components were destroyed as well...
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    I'm building a new PC. Should I start with a Bare Bones system or from scratch?

    I'm planning on taking the monitor, keyboard, mouse, DVD drive, sound card and CD-RW drive out of my current computer and adding them to the new components. The new things I need are the processor, mobo, fan, power supply, case, memory, video card and hard drive. For the first five things on...